FALL RIVER — An election is more than a way to chose state office holders, Danny Factor said.

It is also a chance for the entire state to enter a conversation, he said.

The candidates for the Green-Rainbow Party hope to make the conversation more open and inclusive, Factor added.

Factor and two other Green-Rainbow candidates filed papers in Fall River to place their names on the Nov. 4 state election ballot. Factor of Acton is running for secretary of state, Ian Jackson of Arlington is running for state treasurer and MK Merelice of Brookline is running for state auditor.

The party needed 5,000 certified signatures to put candidates on the ballot. The three candidates filed 6,895 signatures at the Boston office of the secretary of state, but they included both Fall River and Springfield in their itinerary for the day because they are running for statewide office, Merelice said.

“We wanted to do this as a way of acknowledging that the state consists of more than Boston,” she said.

“We will be all over the state,” Factor added. “One thing about the Green-Rainbow Party is that we really value democracy and we really value listening to the public.”

The secretary of state occupies two regional offices, one in Fall River and one in Springfield. The campaign must segregate the signatures by the city or town where the votes signing the forms are registered. The campaign must get the signatures certified by the municipal voter registration office and then file the signatures in the proper regional office.

The party filed 353 names in Fall River, almost all of them collected in Fall River and New Bedford by Sigute Meilus and her team. All of the signatures collected were collected by volunteers, party officials say.

The party has another 500 to file in Springfield, party officials said.

The Green-Rainbow party campaigns on a platform of environmental awareness and democratic action to offset the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government.

“Over time, our economy has seen the rise of huge corporations that exploit workers, shift taxes onto ordinary taxpayers, pollute our environment, buy the services of our politicians and then, in some cases, move their headquarters overseas to avoid paying taxes in America,” Factor said. “We need to promote different corporate behavior and to encourage the growth of locally owned businesses that become integral parts of healthy communities.”

Factor, Jackson and Merelice said they will travel throughout the state between now and the general election to tell people about the Green-Rainbow Party and campaign for votes.

“I think we can win,” Factor said. “But elections are also about education. There are a lot of ways the country and the state can reflect its democratic nature. One is voting. Another is assembly and speech. We will encourage all of them."